Products

MontaVista
Linux

May 12, 2009 MontaVista announced MontaVista Linux 6 (MVL6)
comprised of Market Specific Distributions, MontaVista Integration
Platform, Software Development Kit, MontaVista Zone Content Server,
and support and services. There are a number of differences between
MVL6 and previous MontaVista Linux products. The main ones are:

MontaVista Integration Plaform - based on BitBake, analogous to “make,” which analyzes a
set of directives and then builds a task dependency tree to satisfy
a user command. BitBake then executes the defined tasks to
completion.

MontaVista Zone Content Server - accessed from behind a proxy,
or local mirror for offline operations, to fetch software and
updates. Rather than depending on a slew of public HTTP, CVS, git,
and Subversion servers across the Internet there is a single source
for every original source archive and patch.

MontaVista Linux (formerly known as Hard Hat
Linux) is a Linux distribution that has been
enhanced to become a full fledged real-time operating system.
The work on real-time performance has since continued to a point
where MontaVista claims to support hard real-time tasks
on embedded Linux as of MontaVista Linux 4.0, with response times
as fast as other real-time operating systems.[3]

MontaVista Professional
Edition

MontaVista Professional Edition (Pro) is targeted at general
embedded Linux developers who want all the benefits of an open
source development platform (open source, Linux, easily accessible
software, etc) as well as additional MontaVista benefits including
higher quality (fewer bugs), integration with open source tools for
a particular hardware architecture, and support. Pro is targeted at
intelligent device markets, including networking and
communications, instrumentation and control, aerospace and defense, SOHO devices, and medical electronics.[6]

MontaVista Carrier Grade
Edition

MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) is a
commercial-grade Linux development platform for developers working
with RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability) managed
hardware (HPI, IPMI) or custom hardware, who require long-term
support and high availability. [7]Carrier
Grade Linux is governed by the Linux FoundationCGL working group.

MontaVista
Mobilinux

MontaVista Mobilinux
is targeted at wireless handsets and other mobile devices such as
GPS devices, portable medical devices, and wireless POS terminals.
Mobilinux's key features include dynamic power management,
real-time performance, fast booting, and small memory footprint.[8]

MontaVista
DevRocket

MontaVista DevRocket is a set of Eclipseplug-ins for facilitating
application and system development with MontaVista Linux. DevRocket
integrated development
environment runs on Linux, Solaris and Windows. It
utilizes the Eclipse C++
Development Toolkit (CDT). Starting with DevRocket 5.0, users can
add MontaVista's plug-ins into an existing Eclipse installation, or
install Eclipse with the plugins already loaded.[4]

DevRocket is available in two varieties: a Platform Developer
Kit (PDK) and Application Developer Kit (ADK). The Platform
Developer Kit includes the ability to communicate with a target
(RSE, SSH), create and manage file systems, debugging (kgdb), and performance tuning
(memory leak, memory usage, system profiling). The application
developer kit includes a virtual target for developing applications
earlier in the development cycle, one-click edit/compile/debug, and
performance tuning.[9]

Open
Source contributions

MontaVista has a history of being a major contributor to the Linux kernel and the
open source
community. From the beginning, Jim Ready said he wanted to make it
"100% pure Linux" under the GPL[10]. The
core changes to make MontaVista Linux into a real-time operating
system were made by Nigel Gamble and later updated by Robert Love.[11]
Robert Love submitted the changes to the Linux kernel in 2001. The
Linux 2.6 stable kernel series is the first to include similar
features, such as priority-based preemption. As of 2008,
MontaVista had contributed 1.2% of the Linux kernel, making it the
9th-largest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel, according to
a survey by the Linux Foundation.[12]

Vision
Conference

In 2007, MontaVista hosted a conference on the subject of
embedded Linux, called Vision. The conference
included a keynote speech by
Andrew Morton and
drew roughly 400 attendees.

The 2008 Vision Summit was held at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco. Speakers included MontaVista CEO Rusty Harris, Peter
Kronowitt, an Intel software strategist, Freescale CTO Lisa Su,
MontaVista CTO James
Ready, OLPC kernel developer Deepak Saxena, and LWN.net Founder Jonathan
Corbet[15]. It
was noted that the Vision Summit drew a healthy crowd in comparison
to Linux
World despite being hosted by a single-vendor[16].

Meld

March 3, 2009, MontaVista Software announced[17]Meld embedded Linux
community, a community for embedded Linux developers. It
essentially is an internet forum specialized in questions and
answers on the topics of embedded Linux - MontaVista specifically
claims that meld targets all embedded Linux users, not just its own
customers.

Distribution

According to MontaVista, the Mobilinux operating system is used
in 90 percent of Linux-based smartphones, totaling over 35 million
phones and mobile devices[8].
Other versions of MontaVista Linux are used in devices made by a
number of partners, including Sony Bravia TVs, NEC routers, and others, especially in
Japan.[18] A
version of MontaVista Linux OS is used in Dell Latitude E4200 and
E4300 notebooks[19][20] to
provide the Latitude
ON feature[21] .

Mobile
phones

Motorola became the
first company to use Linux on a mobile phone when it released the
Motorola A760 to
the Chinese market on February
16, 2003. Motorola chose to use MontaVista Linux in the Motorola A760 and
future Linux-based phones, despite the fact that Motorola was a
founding member of the competing Symbian OS.[22] Since
then, Motorola has increased focus on its Linux platform and
publicly stated that the future platform for all its mid- and
high-tier mobile phones will be Linux with Java,[23] and
other phone manufacturers NEC and Panasonic have developed
a common platform based on MontaVista Linux.[24][25]